A BIG WARNING: A bit of cursing and rage in a blog that is rant filled. Read on if you still want to.
Anytime. Any fucking time it involves a young person shooting up a place. Been this way since fucking 1997. I wasn't planning on a blog, but with the blaming on games from one side, it bothers and enrages me. People are not stupid. Gamers are not stupid. They don't fall for this stuff as easily as the Baby Boomers. So why resort to the same bullshit that has been happening for over 20 years?
As always, scapegoats. I will say this. That Dayton shooter seems like someone that has never gamed. I see a mental issue. Who creates a hit list and a rape list? That is straight up Columbine shit, only way worse. This is someone that had a few screws loose and was looking to do a lot of damage. I don't see this related to gaming. And the El Paso shooting, I don't see this stemming from video games. I see that one as being motivated by race, which is a problem related to the United States.
What politicians fail to realize is that crime has down quite a bit since the start of the 90s. I don't care if they are conservs, liberals, whatever. It has gone down a lot and it has nothing to do with video games being the cause of these crimes. This medium gives people a chance to do stuff that they can't do in real life for obvious reasons. They play with friends, online. They put together a good group.
As far as the shootings go, I don't know how you can fix the problems. Everyone's pointing the finger at everyone. This isn't something that is going to get fixed overnight and the amount of bickering from both sides is not going to help. But for fuck's sake, this blaming on games is annoying. It's not fooling most people. We need to find a happy medium to fix a lot of the United States' problems, but alas, that will never happen.
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